Wife and I were in Maine for vacation with friends. Our rental place was a short walk from a dock where the lobstermen unloaded their catch every day. We gorged on many, many lobsters that week. On the last day of our stay my friend and I walk into the dock house to find it filled with crates of sea urchin. Apparently, it was opening day of the season for them. We're talking about the Uni bounty when the guy running the place comes over and expresses surprise that we knew what they were.... He was happy to show us his tools for opening and extracting the yummy stuff, gave us samples of different qualities/colors, etc. and handed us a giant plastic Solo cup full of Uni, gratis, to go with the lobsters we bought. It was filled with the leftovers from the urchins he opened to test/sample... I'm sure my cholesterol was setting records that week.The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 6:59 pmWell, I wouldn't buy gas station sushi, but I’m going to otherwise disagree with you. I’ve eaten sea urchin right out of the shell while the spines were still wiggling. Mmmm-mmmm good!
Neither my wife nor my friends' like the stuff, so, we happily gorged it down ourselves while making lobster.
